How much weight is safe to loose while pregnant?

Iam 25 years old and 15 + 6 weeks pregnant with my first baby. I rejoined Slimming world a couple of weeks ago. My BMI has gone from 30 to 33 since becoming pregnant. Now Christmas is over I want to get it down. I'm really worried about the effect of having a BMI over 30 and giving birth.

Before I became pregnant id started a gym routine and was doing really well loosing weight but I just stopped everything stupidly when I found out. What's the most I can loose without harming baby at this stage?

I was silly to have stopped I should have just changed the gym routine to cater for being pregnant and kept up the healthy eating.

I tried looking it up online and it doesn't give any guidelines just says it's ok to lose weight if you do it healthily. The SW website has a guideline that says if you lose over 4lbs in a week (which if your not pregnant they have no problem with) they have to look at your food diary. So I'm thinking aslong as it's under 4 so 1/2lbs and 3lbs max it should be safe.

Speak to your gp/midwife and get their advice! Slimming world wont let you st...

Posted
31/12/2017

Speak to your gp/midwife and get their advice! Slimming world wont let you starve - the opposite, you eat so much.

My GP agreed to me attending SW because as you say there's no starving yourself and your eating plenty of fruit and veg. As for exercise I have a gym and pool membership I haven't been using. I will definitely get back swimming. I think il talk to the trainers in the gym about a safe gym routine.

I have had an awful lot going on the last few weeks and work stresses me and somedays my energy just crashes but I figure if I can exercise the days I'm full of energy and rest the days I'm not and eat well I can get the weight down.

Deffinetlwy go for it! They should be able to find you plenty of exercisies suitable. I was kickboxing until 14 weeks and stopped because of an unexplained bleed. Want to go back but im loosing weight as im still being sick and struggling to eat much.

Deffinetlwy go for it! They should be able to find you plenty of exercisies s...

Posted
31/12/2017

Deffinetlwy go for it! They should be able to find you plenty of exercisies suitable. I was kickboxing until 14 weeks and stopped because of an unexplained bleed. Want to go back but im loosing weight as im still being sick and struggling to eat much.

I know a few people that were the same as you very sick during pregnancy and loosing weight from it. I only had nausea so id actually eat to stop the sick feeling which is prob why iv put on weight. Sure you can get back to kickboxing after you have baby 😊

I know a few people that were the same as you very sick during pregnancy and ...

Posted
31/12/2017

I know a few people that were the same as you very sick during pregnancy and loosing weight from it. I only had nausea so id actually eat to stop the sick feeling which is prob why iv put on weight. Sure you can get back to kickboxing after you have baby 😊

Definetley! I take my daughter there for karate too. And my teenage brother goes with me. Its ace for helping with mood swings.

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